Practice and perfect your pronunciation with the
help of professionals
Product Information
This software will be helpful for anyone who needs to use a foreign language
- students from beginner to advanced level, as well as professional and business
users who need it at work. Now you can have the highest quality bilingual
dictionary always to hand. The dictionary comes with a set of tools for speedy
and accurate translation of any text on your computer. The Talking Dictionaries
include electronic versions of Collins bilingual dictionaries and digital sound
bases for all headwords. The dictionary has over 80,000 words and phrases and
more than 120,000 translations.
The electronic versions of the dictionaries have the same content as their
paper counterparts, but are much easier to use. All short forms and
abbreviations used in the dictionary are explained in full in the pop-up prompts
when the cursor is positioned on them. All the headwords in the dictionary are
spoken by professional native speakers. This enables you not only to see the
meaning of a word but also to listen to all the correct pronunciations of the
word and even to practice your own pronunciation with the help of the AudioPad.
The dictionaries are fully cross-referenced, i.e. by clicking on any word in the
translation section you can see the definition or back translation of this word
and then easily revert to the original translation section. It also includes a
quick search facility. To find a particular word you only need to start typing
the word in the quick search field. As each new letter is entered the program
automatically looks for the first most likely word and this will appear in the
dictionary area. This allows you to find the required word quickly from the
first few letters without having to enter the whole word.
The dictionaries can be used for the translation of individual words or of
texts of any size. The program enables you to copy data via the Clipboard as
well as by a drag-and-drop operation. If the text contains only one word it will
be placed in the quick search field. If the text contains more than one word all
the words will be placed in a special text window (the TextPad) which opens
automatically. To move within the text, you can use the scroll bar and choose
the required word by clicking on it or by pressing a key. The selected word is
placed in the quick search field which enables you to edit the word and search
for its different forms. You can search for the word in either section of the
dictionary, which is especially useful when you have texts containing different
languages.
Additional facilities are provided by the MemoPad, in which you can enter any
word from the dictionaries and use it as a bookmark to quickly switch to a
required word. Also any chosen set of words can be transferred to the Shooting
Gallery directly from the dictionary in order to practice the spelling or it can
be saved as a separate file for further use in the dictionary or Shooting
Gallery.
Product Features
Vocabulary Exercises
The Shooting Gallery and Crosswords are a unique system of exercises to help you
learn new words using the Talking Dictionaries as a database. You must guess the
words from the dictionary you have selected using the translations as clues.
Words are chosen from the dictionary at random, and the sets of words in the
Shooting Gallery and crosswords are never repeated. You can gradually build up
your vocabulary using sets of 500 gi1,000 gi1,500 gi2,000 gi2,500 gi3,000 most
common words. In addition you can use the MemoPads you have set up in the
dictionaries and learn only those words which are most important for you. By
doing these exercises you can use the AudioPad to practise your pronunciation of
new foreign words.
